At the entrance to the Fukushima Prefectural Centre for Environmental Creation, a friendly hippopotamus-like mascot welcomes visitors while accepting hugs from children. Buzzing with young families, ...

Radiation that leaked after the Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster has reached the West Coast of the United States. Samples drawn from beaches of Oregon have confirmed the presence of the cesium-134 ...

Struck by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and a subsequent tsunami on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima nuclear plant experienced core ...

File photo of fishermen unloading their catch at the Hirakata fish market in Kitaibaraki, south of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant. About 40% of fish caught near Fukushima are considered ...

n employee of Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) uses a geiger counter next to storage tanks for radioactive water at TEPCO's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, ...

The government of Japan acknowledged for the first time that a former worker of the Fukushima nuclear plant has died as a result of radiation exposure – seven years after the plant was hit by a ...

On March 11th, 2011 the Tōhoku earthquake and resulting tsunami wreaked havoc on Japan. It also resulted in the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl when the tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi ...

Newly-discovered radiation levels in one of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant’s reactors are stunningly high, the Japan Times and others have reported. The space is so radioactive that even a ...

More than two years have passed since a major earthquake and devastating tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and still not a single case of radiation illness or death occurred ...

Five years after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, the radiation in the ocean off the coast of Japan is thousands of times lower than it was the month after the disaster, but water contaminated by the ...

For the first time, seaborne radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster has been detected on the West Coast of the United States. The levels are very low and shouldn't harm people eating fish ...

Above-ground atomic bomb test at the Nevada Test Site while troops look on. These clouds of material often wafted over to Utah during the 1950s. After World War II, the United States began years of ...